A hotel manager and bartender are dead tonight as the result of a vicious armed attack in the Cayo District. Fifty year old John Luce, the manager of Black Rock Lodge and forty-one year old Mario Cocom, the bartender, were murdered around ten-thirty Monday night at the eco-tourism lodge on the Macal River. News 5’s […]
With the Public Utilities Commission languishing in legal limbo, it was left for irate citizens to once again put pressure on BTL to rescind the new rate structure imposed by the monopoly on December first. The protest took the form of another march and rally led by CAPU, the Committee for Action on Public Utilities. […]
While the leadership of CAPU has been careful to keep the anti-BTL movement out of partisan politics, it is not surprising that both parties have sought to put their own spin on the protests. Leader of the Opposition Dean Barrow, has been vocal in his condemnation of government’s role in events leading up to the […]
A security guard in Belize City has been shot by an assailant near mile one and a half on the Western Highway. Thirty-six year old Alfredo Alpuche, a Triple A guard posted at Leslie’s Imports, told police that on Monday night a man rode up to him on a bicycle, asked to see the permit […]
One man who didn’t get away is thirty year old David Espinosa of San Pedro Town. Police picked him up on Monday and charged him in the weekend burglary of the National Assembly building in Belmopan. Sometime between Friday night and Monday morning office security was breached, but only one hundred and five dollars worth […]
A Cayo boy is dead after being knocked down by a truck. Eleven year old Aaron Williams of Camalote Village was killed after he ran across the Western Highway into the path of an oncoming vehicle and was run over. That vehicle, a Ford Ranger pickup truck, was driven by thirty-two year old Onan McLean […]
